Monday, September 17, 2012

Often, while our kids play, we the moms get into a heated discussion about how a woman's position in the society (especially with reference to the Indian society) hasn't changed. The talks range from as personal as how still some of us have to ask our husbands before buying a single item to as distant as the news about a married woman's suspicious death in some remote village. The unfortunate but factual conclusion that we always reach at the end of it is that social, economic or financial status of a woman does not guarantee the preservation of her esteem or independence.

And since on the subject of women and independence, many are quick to point out how divorces are no longer as uncommon, blame it on the woman who does not wish to compromise anymore (read - no longer tolerates oppression!).

This article which is in the form of a letter was inspired by nothing less but the spirit of the "independent" woman..Read on...

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

You know the end is near
when the evenings turn cold and deep in sleep; your hands reach out for the
blanket early in the morning.

This summer has been
wonderful. Lots of outings, tons of activities and a couple of short vacations,
wouldn’t have asked for more and wouldn’t have had even the energy for more!

This post is just going to
be a rounding off for things that did not get a mention in the summer coverage.
And just because they got written about towards the end does not mean they rank
last in my list of fun things that we did this summer. You see, I saved the
best for the last!

Cereal Art

With so many Art and Craft
kits available in stores, finding something for your kid to do at home during
the holidays is easier than finding an appropriate Television show for them to
watch. But you know what, you don’t even have to go as far as the nearest store
for what I am going to suggest next.

All you need for this fun
filled Art project is:

1)Fruit
loops or any other cereal

2)Thick
white paper

3)Pencil
to draw

4)Glue

5)A
couple of friends and lots of enthusiasm

It was actually my
daughter who came up with this idea. She started arranging her colorful fruit cereal
on the dining table one morning while eating it and made a lovely pattern. “Mommy,”
she called, “this would look so good on a piece of paper”! That’s it, we
invited a few of her friends over the next afternoon for ‘Cereal Art’. To give
the afternoon a party feel, we added a couple of festive touches like covering
the table with a pink (for girls of course) table cloth and having cupcakes and
lemonade at snack time.

Of all the little projects
that I did with my girls over the years, I would rank this as my personal
favorite because of its simplicity. It showed me that you don’t need to spend a
lot of money to create beautiful things or to indulge your kids positively or
to have fun with friends. You just need to come up with ideas on how to
creatively use things lying around at home and make the project fun yet
affordable. It is true, I thought, as the pink sun shines and smiles brightly
on my kids’ room wall, money can only buy the supplies, not the fun!

Sundry Substances

A 3 day trip to Mt. Rainer National Park with 4
other families, front row seats at the awe-inspiring Oregon Air Show, singing
‘Happy Birthdays’ for a couple of cute kids, capturing the never –seen- before
kind of blue waters of the famous Crater lake in our camera, driving through a
wild life safari where the animals roam free and not you, a couple of more
picnics at the park and wanting to be a kid all over again seeing the girls
splash each other at the community water fountain.

The summer days went by fast
and hot, happy and lost! I wrote my first summer fun post on 7th
July and it is already two months since then. I am already feeling a little sad
as the schools start, marking the end of summer. But not for long!

Soon, the spell will be
broken and the leaves will change color. Fall will arrive, cool and crisp, deep
and vivid; swathed in a beauty of its own.

About me

I am a Mommy as the name of my blog suggests. Someone famous said, once you are a Mom you can't be anybody else, seems true to me! Although happy with the Mommy tag, I crave for "me" to come out now and then. Loving your kids does not mean losing your passion for other things in life, my blog is about that very sentiment. So, you will probably find the mention of my kids in almost every word I write but at the same time you will also get a glimpse of ME, the person that I am and the dreams that I have.